This week on eLearning Learning , the top two articles were funny to see side-by-side: You can find them on the Weekly Edition. Both articles may be interesting to read, but it also highlights how hot Micro-Learning is right now.

The post Get Out, And Get Into Silicon Valley: SurveyMonkey, Google, GoPro, FlipBoard, & So Many More appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Brian and I on SurveyMonkey’s rooftop last year. New York is in the can (what a great event!)

Social learning is the process by which groups of people cooperate to learn with and from each other. The network era is creating a historic reversal of education, as discourse replaces institutions, and social learning in knowledge networks obsolesces many aspects of organizational training.

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Reviewing all the entries for the Intranet Innovation Awards (closing date for this year’s awards is June 5th!) gives us fascinating insights into where intranets are and where they are heading. This learning helps inform our writing and also the work we do with our clients. It also gives many inspiring examples which we do our best to share with the global intranet community. MORE >>

As I examined the case examples below, and talked with many top CIOs about how they were operating their departments over the last several years, it’s clear that the contemporary IT organization — at least ones that are successfully leading their organizations into the future — are now wielding a new kind of power. I don’t mean power in the traditional, hierarchical sense through departmental mandate, titles, and the org chart. MORE >>

Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. Innovation vs. (social) copying [without innovators to copy, none of us can learn socially]. Another attribute of the most successful strategies is that they are parasitic. MORE >>

Discover the first of five components of your personality with this one-minute test. Over the next few weeks on PsyBlog, we’ll explore your personality. As most modern psychologists see it, […]. » » Continue reading: One Minute Personality Test: Are You An Introvert, Extrovert or Something Else? » » Read HealthiestBlog.com , the new site from PsyBlog's author. Related articles: Borderline Personality Disorder: 8 Classic Signs You Should Know. MORE >>

Is there an appetite for change in L&D? That was the conversation I’ve had with colleagues lately. And I have to say that that the answer is mixed, at best. The consensus is that most of L&D is comfortably numb. That L&D folks are barely coping with getting courses out on a rapid schedule and running training events because that’s what’s expected and known. There really isn’t any burning desire for change, or willingness to move even if there is. This is a problem. MORE >>